On 02/06/2008 05:18 PM, Al Hopper wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Dave wrote: > >> Just looked into add-in cards to get around the issue. Unfortunately >> the Tyan 2927 boards have only PCI-E and 32 bit PCI slots. I can't >> find any PCI-E SATA HBAs that have the Marvell 88SX chips, either. > > Yep - the lack of a cost-effective PCI-E board is an issue currently > hurting widespread ZFS adoption/experimentation. If only Sun would come > to the rescuse (hint, hint). You could look at an LsiLogic SAS board > with a PCI-E connector. I've also heard that some users have found the > SuperMicro board to work in a 32-bit slot and others have found that it > won't. I have no clue as to why this is the case.
I've ordered an AOC-SAT2-MV8 to see if it will work in the 32bit PCI slot. Fingers crossed... > > The only other alternative I'm aware of is a 3124 based PCI card. Let > me check the solaris on x86 (yahoo) list and email you a recommendation. > I think Bob Palowoda found a card that works... (I've CCed him). > >> I'm extremely disappointed that the SXCE SATA driver won't work with >> my MCP55 based controller. Seems like there should be no reason why it >> wouldn't since some Sun servers use MCP55 as well. > > :( > Solaris developers: what information can I provide to help get this fixed in the earliest possible SXCE release? -- Dave _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
